Charles L. Perkins is the Founder and Chief Scientist of Virtual Rendezvous.
He co-wrote a popular book on Java in October, 1995 [1], and created some (now historical) Java class hierarchy diagrams [2].
An edited except of "The Big Picture" section (thru "The Bytecodes Themselves" [1]) of the book was published in the Premiere issue of Java Report, March 1996.
[2] He has written several other books, including a number of volumes in the "Teach Yourself Java" series.
[3] 1996: 1997: 2000: Ad Hoc Networking.